Started with Carp, moved on to Swans!

[Tim.243]

What will be next ?

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, That happened around the Upper Thames a few years ago, The Swan count this year was very low

 

[gs jon]

they will no doubt only get a slapped wrist and some form of grant to by food.
JB

 

[Danhfromwales]

And people scoffed at the republican party pointing out that non native migrants within America source their protein from not so traditional sources I.e. family pets.

 

[VSS]

Heaven forbid that anyone would want to hunt for their food. Tut tut! Whatever next? How shocking!

 

[Taff]

Are swans legal quarry where they come from, they are here.

 

[User00056]

Heaven forbid that anyone would want to hunt for their food. Tut tut! Whatever next? How shocking!

Killing swans is illegal in this country. I don't give a hoot what they do in their own.

Apart from that, these people will no doubt be of similar ilk to those who steal, butchery, and illegally sell other people's sheep

 

[gs jon]

Are swans legal quarry where they come from, they are here.

swans in england are the property of the crown and are protected by law as far as i know

 

[wilf007]

Welcome to the future of the new UK

 

[Mountain Bug]

After hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in '05, most of the displaced residents were given housing wherever it could be found. We were visiting a friends mom in Baton Rouge at a very nice retirement village whose vacancies had been used by FEMA for overflow housing. The new residents were very poor and had apparently eaten all the "pet" ducks, geese and swans on the community ponds. And why not, they were floating meals ready to eat that didn't need refrigeration. If my family was displaced and hungry, my law abiding nature would surely take a back seat to providing a meal. These types of things are not out of character for people coming from areas of desperate poverty the likes of which we first worlders can't seem to fathom.


Scott

 

[User00056]

These types of things are not out of character for people coming from areas of desperate poverty the likes of which we first worlders can't seem to fathom

The UK isn't an 'area of desperate poverty' though, by any stretch of the imagination, and immigrants of any origin are expected and required to both know and abide by the law. As with so many things though, self-entitlement seems to be sufficient justification as long as the victim card can be played.

Quite frankly, I think it's pretty poor that anyone would even attempt to condone this behaviour.

 

[FrenchieBoy]

swans in england are the property of the crown and are protected by law as far as i know

Definitely so! I was a skipper on the pleasure steamers (Owned by Salter's Steamers) "The Mary Stewart" and "The Sonning" (The Sonning is now at Newark and still doing pleasure trips to the best of my knowledge) which were used for the "Swan Upping" on the Thames at reading many years ago where all the swans are counted and the yearlings rung each year. - They are classed as "Property of The Crown" so IF the story is true then it should class as "Theft from the Monarchy"!

 

[Basil H]

Back in the day when times were hard and meat was rationed, a lot of swans were eaten. I could name half a dozen of the older generation who yarned about it - notably the well-known Kenzie Thorpe. Farther back, the Norfolk naturalist and author Arthur Patterson hosted an annual "swan supper" for his chums.
In more recent years, I can assure you that not all birds which have come to grief on power lines have gone to waste.

 

[JTO]

swans in england are the property of the crown and are protected by law as far as i know

Some also belong to the beneficiaries of the Ilchester Estate at Abbotsbury, currently The Hon. Mrs Charlotte Townshend. Birds destined for the table were raised in fresh water and not allowed into the salt water of the Fleet.
In local villages it was common practice to draw the curtains to consume Christmass dinner, when 'Abbotsbury Turkeys' were on the menu.

 

[paul o']

NOTHING WILL BE DONE !!
But you say scumbags your end up in jail !!
We are awash in a woke and nannying! poor things in the country they eat swans ? Well until this is there Fecking country! They can't! that saying the police will look into it to see if there was an offence committed
No shat the swans are in there hands in the bags FFS
If i and my wife go to there Shathole of a Country We have to Obay there rules !!
"When in Rome " as the saying go's ? or be arrested, beaten, jailed or held on a trumped up offence!! Here it tea and biscuits and a free ride home with an Apology from the PM.
****
My rant and no swans were killed and eaten while tapping this out .
A foot note .
.What a Bunch of Dirty Fecking Frounts.

 

[long_range_rob]

swans in england are the property of the crown and are protected by law as far as i know

Swans above the tidal range of the Thames or property of the Monarch. Not sure on the legislation around “snow geese” elsewhere

 

[Pedro]

I think swans belonging to the monarch is a thing. But in any case, I don't think they have ever appeared on any general licence. So I would say if you nab a swan you should be getting the same sort of punishment as someone caught killing birds of prey.

 

[gs jon]

I think swans belonging to the monarch is a thing. But in any case, I don't think they have ever appeared on any general licence. So I would say if you nab a swan you should be getting the same sort of punishment as someone caught killing birds of prey.

possible 6 months inside and possible unlimited fine

 

[.25-06]

Yet they will just be treated like a couple of lads assaulting several armed officers in an airport.

 

[hedge hunter]

Dont get me fecking started